Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation School of Informatics University of Edinburgh

The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh invites applications for a three-year PhD studentship starting in September 2012. ILCC is dedicated to the pursuit of basic and applied research on computational approaches to language, communication and cognition.

The studentship is associated with the EPSRC project 'A Unified Model of Compositional and Distributional Semantics: Theory and Applications'. The aim of this project is to develop a general modeling framework of compositional distributional semantics and apply it to cognitive modeling and large-scale NLP tasks.

The student will be supervised by Dr. Mirella Lapata, and will work on a topic drawn from following research areas:

The successful candidate will have a good honors degree or equivalent in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, or a related discipline. He/she will have strong programming skills and previous experience in machine learning and/or natural language processing.

The studentship covers maintenance at the research council rate of around GBP 13500 per year, plus tuition fees at the EU/UK rate. Applications are restricted to EU/UK citizens. The start date of the studentship is flexible, but can be no earlier than September 1, 2012.

If you have further questions, please contact Dr. Mirella Lapata (mlapinf.ed.ac.uk). To apply, please follow the instructions at:

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